Julia Elliott

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Julia Elliott is a writer of fiction, and winner of the 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for beginning women writers.

Elliott received her MFA from Penn State in 1996, [1] and a Ph.D. from University of Georgia in 2012. [2] Her debut short-story collection The Wilds was published by Tin House in 2014. In 2016 she was awarded the Shared Worlds Residency by Amazon.com. [3] She teaches at University of South Carolina in Columbia. [2]

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References

  1. "Department alumna, Julia Elliott (MFA, 1996), will receive a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award". Pennsylvania State University . Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Former Athenian Julia Elliott Returns with Her Debut Book". The Georgia Review . October 2, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  3. "Elliott Awarded Shared Worlds Residency". locusmag.com . Retrieved April 16, 2016.